Card game.



E. W. SAWYER.

CARD GAME.

APPLICATION FlLED MAR. 6, 1917- Patented June 5, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. a. 1917.

Patented June 5, 1917.

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' CARD GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1917.,

Application filed March 6, 1917. Serial No. 152,621.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMMoNsWoonBunY SAWYER, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at 1506 Emersonavenue, north, Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CardGames, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to card games, and has for its object to provide aset of cards having thereon certain markings and sets of markingswhereby many original, unique, and interesting combinations can be made,upon which combinations a very large number of pleasing games of skilland chance may be founded. I

More specifically, the game consists of four groups of thirteen cardseach, each group being distinguished by a different color and each grouphaving the cards thereof consecutively numbered one to thirteen; each ofsaid cards also has thereon a letter of the alphabet. These lettersarealot duplicated on any one group. Each group has one complete set ofvowels. Certain other letters are found in each of two groups; and

certain letters appear only in one group. Each of the groups has someletters not found in any other group.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear inconnection with the detailed description thereof, and are particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the drawings illustrating the application of my invention in oneform,--:

Figure 1 illustrates one group of cards having a distinguishing color,such as red. Fig. 2 illustrates a second group of cards having adistinguishing color, such as black. Fig. 3 illustrates a third group ofcards with a third color, such as green; and Fig. 4 illustrates thefourth group of cards hav- 1 1n group one; G, J, Q, Y, appear in grouping a fourth color, such as blue. A

All of the cards .will preferably have white faces with the lines,letters, and numbers printed in the respective colors, the backs of thecards being of any desired design.

Each of the groups of cards, as shown, is consecutively numbered 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,. 11, 12, 13, the numbers appearing in the upperleft hand and the lower right hand corner of each card and appearing inreversedposition within rectangles 10 and 11, as indicated at 12 and 13.In whichever position the cards are held, therefore, a numthe rectangleat the top of the card. Each of the groups has one each of vowels A, E,I, O, U; but these vowels in the difi'erent groups do not appear inconjunction with the same number; thus A is on card 12 of group one, oncard 7 of group two,}on card 2 of group three, and on card 9 of groupfour; E is on card 1 of oup one,j.card 12 of group two, card 4: 0 groupthree, and card 8 of group four; I is on card 9 of group one, card 5 ofgroup two, card 13 of group three, and card- 2 of group four; 0 15 oncard 8 of group one, card 9 of group two, card 3 of group three, andcard 12 of group 4; U is on card 3 of group one, card 4 of group two,card 8 of group three, and card 11 of group four. The exact'distributionof these vowels need not be precisely as here shown; but it is aprinciple of the invention that the vowel letters of each group are ondifl'erentnumbered cards from the corresponding vowel letters of anyother group. In the case of the followin consonants B, C, D, F, L, M, N,P, R, and T, each appears in two groups of cards so that there are twoof each of said consonants in the entire set of cards, distributedirregularly through the four groups. Thus, in the arrangement shown,there are seven of such consonants in group one, four of such consonantsin' group two, six of-such consonants in group three, and five of suchconsonants in group four. None of these consonants last referred to, arefound twice in any one goup of cards. The following'consonants H, J, K,Q, V, W, X, Y, Z appear only once and-consequently each is found in onlyonev group of cards. Thus in the arrangement shown, of these consonantsZ appears two; V, X appear in group three and H, J, W appear in groupfour.

As above stated, the exact arrangement of these letters shown is notessential but the arrangement is such that the same number of consonantsof any class is not found in any of the four groups of cards.

' In general, the play is instituted by dealing in the usual manner,either all or a requisite number of cards of the pack. Two, three, orfour layers most commonly comprise the num er most suitable for any ofthe games which may be played with these cards. In general, 13 is thehigh card and 1 the low card; and trump is determined by color. Anessential feature of my game,

however,'is that the scoring card or the tive numbering of the differentgroups. In

one game, ten cards are dealt to each player.

.The card played by the first player must be followed in suit or colorby the other players, but if a playeris out of suit and can match aletter already played, the player so matching winsover any other suitcard. If two players match, as where three or more of the same vowelsappear on the board at once, the last to match wins the trick. Thepeculiar grouping'of letters in the several sets of cards, four each ofthe vowels, two each of some of the consonants, and only one of otherconsonants, gives a fair hazzard of letter matching, and at the sametime renders it of such doubtful occurrence as to greatly heightentheinterest tions count for the player the total of the numbers found onits three cards. Because of the peculiar arrangement of letters in spectto the numerals, the combinations are rendered difficult to secure andthe results of such combinations in respect to the counting sums of thenumbers thereon are made interestingly uncertain.

A further description of the multiplicity of uses of the cards havingthe arrangements f herein described isunnecessary. The advantages of myinvention are obvious, as by these means games of much variety andinterest may be played while avoiding the unpleasant assoclation whichto some render the use of what are known as common playing cardsobnoxious.

I claim:

1 A deck of cards comprising four groups of equal number, the cards ofeach group being marked to distinguish the same from the cards of eachother group, the cards of .each group being consecutively f numbered,and each card of each group having a different letter of the alphabetthereon, some of said letters appearmg on a card of each group, othersof said letters appearing on a card of each of two groups and stillothers of said letters appearing on a 1 card of only one group.

2. A deck of cards comprising four groups of equal number, the cards ofeach group being marked to distinguish the same from the cards of eachother group, the cards of each group being, consecutively numbered, andeach card of each group.

having a difl'erent letter of the alphabet thereon, each group havingthe cards thereof marked with one each of the vowels A, E, I, O, U, eachof said vowels appearing 'on a different numbered card on each group.

3. A deck of cards comprising four groups of equal number, the cards ofeach group being marked to distinguish the same from the cards of eachother group, the cards oi each group being consecutively numbered, andeach card of each group having a different letter of the alphabetthereon, each group having the cards thereof marked with one each of thevowels A, E, I, O, U, each of said vowels appearing on a differentnumbered card on each group, a portion of the consonants appearing on acard of each of two grpups and the remaining consonants appearmg on acard of only one group.

In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

EMMONS WOODBURY SAWYER. Witnesses:

Gm. E. Y 0on0, A. D. BENNETT.

